156 Quotes by Annie Leibovitz

I was scared to do anything in the studio because it felt so claustrophobic. I wanted to be somewhere where things could happen and the subject wasn’t just looking back at you.

It’s hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.

When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I’d like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.

When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that’s what I was doing, but it wasn’t.

I’m more interested in being good than being famous.

People buy ideas, they don’t buy photographs.

I sometimes find the surface interesting. To say that the mark of a good portrait is whether you get them or get the soul – I don’t think this is possible all of the time.

There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I’d love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them.

The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother’s wall in her house.